Andrew Jackson: 7th President of the United States (1829-1837).
Battle of Hastings: a decisive battle in the Norman Conquests of England in 1066.
Cornwall: a country at the southwest tip of England.
disturbance between the North and the South: The Civil War (1861-1865).
Dracula: the 1931 film version of the famous vampire story.
flivver: another name for a Model-T Ford.
Jamaica: an island country in the West Indies, south of Cuba.
John Wesley: 1702-1791. Founder of the Methodist Church.
Meridian, Mississippi: Meridian is a city in east Mississippi.
Merlin: King Arthur's adviser, prophet and magician.
Mobile: a city in southwest Alabama.
no mother to buy it with: an allusion to the Great Depression.
nothing to fear but fear itself: an allusion to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address.
Pensacola: a city in northwest Florida.
Philadelphia: a city in southeast Pennsylvania.
stump hole whiskey: illegally made and sold whiskey that would be hidden in the holes of tree stumps.
Tuscaloosa: a city in central Alabama.
Chapter 2
Bullfinch: an allusion to Bulfinch's Mythology, a famous collection of Greek myths. Jem is kidding, of course, but his reference to Bullfinch's Mythology is another indication of how much of a reader Scout has always been.
Dewey Decimal System: a system for organizing books in libraries. Contrary to what Jem tells Scout, this Dewey system has nothing to do with John Dewey, a theorist of progressive education.
diaries of Lorenzo Dow: Lorenzo Dow (1777 - 1834) was a Methodist preacher who traveled throughout the country, including the state of Alabama.
Here's a quarter: if a quarter doesn't seem like enough, remember that, during this portion of the Great Depression, a nickel bought a loaf of bread, a movie was a dime, and gasoline could be had for sixteen cents a gallon.
the crash: the Stock Market Crash of 1929 which led to the Great Depression.
union suit: a one-piece garment of underwear with a buttoned flap in the back.
Union: one side in the Civil War (the north).
Chapter 3
man who sat on a flagpole: Flagpole sitting was one of the stranger fads of the 1930's.
To Kill a Mocking Bird
Chapter 1
Andrew Jackson: 7th President of the United States (1829-1837).
Battle of Hastings: a decisive battle in the Norman Conquests of England in 1066.
Cornwall: a country at the southwest tip of England.
disturbance between the North and the South: The Civil War (1861-1865).
Dracula: the 1931 film version of the famous vampire story.
flivver: another name for a Model-T Ford.
Jamaica: an island country in the West Indies, south of Cuba.
John Wesley: 1702-1791. Founder of the Methodist Church.
Meridian, Mississippi: Meridian is a city in east Mississippi.
Merlin: King Arthur's adviser, prophet and magician.
Mobile: a city in southwest Alabama.
no mother to buy it with: an allusion to the Great Depression.
nothing to fear but fear itself: an allusion to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Inaugural Address.
Pensacola: a city in northwest Florida.
Philadelphia: a city in southeast Pennsylvania.
stump hole whiskey: illegally made and sold whiskey that would be hidden in the holes of tree stumps.
Tuscaloosa: a city in central Alabama.
Chapter 2
Bullfinch: an allusion to Bulfinch's Mythology, a famous collection of Greek myths. Jem is kidding, of course, but his reference to Bullfinch's Mythology is another indication of how much of a reader Scout has always been.
Dewey Decimal System: a system for organizing books in libraries. Contrary to what Jem tells Scout, this Dewey system has nothing to do with John Dewey, a theorist of progressive education.
diaries of Lorenzo Dow: Lorenzo Dow (1777 - 1834) was a Methodist preacher who traveled throughout the country, including the state of Alabama.
Here's a quarter: if a quarter doesn't seem like enough, remember that, during this portion of the Great Depression, a nickel bought a loaf of bread, a movie was a dime, and gasoline could be had for sixteen cents a gallon.
the crash: the Stock Market Crash of 1929 which led to the Great Depression.
union suit: a one-piece garment of underwear with a buttoned flap in the back.
Union: one side in the Civil War (the north).
Chapter 3
man who sat on a flagpole: Flagpole sitting was one of the stranger fads of the 1930's.
This information was fromhttp://tokillamocking.tripod.com/id25.html which was copied from
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/allusions_all.html. Anything written as for the allusions were directly from there and I do not take any credit for writing them.
The illusions were all found through a google search.